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Dr. Blumenbach s Observations 
much more as I should think proper, but also to select and 
take away whatever parts of it I should think worthy of a 
particular investigation. 
It was a mummy of a child about sixyears old, which as to its 
preparation, (viz. without rosin, and without the least remain- 
ing trace of any of the soft parts), and the painted semicircu- 
lar breast-plate, consisting of several folds of cotton doth glued 
upon each other, was very similar to those at the British Mu- 
seum, and the one at Gottingen, except that the characters 
upon’that part of the cotton integument which covered the 
shanks, resembled rather more the figures of the one delineated 
by Count Caylus, in his Recueil,&c. Vol. V. Tab. XX 
Nothing remained of the head but some pieces of the bones 
of the face, a few teeth, and the mask, which still adhered to 
the cotton bandages. 
Among the teeth I found the incisor es, which notwithstand- 
ing the tender age of the person had however a very short 
thick crown, considerably worn away at that edge which is 
usually sharp. This, therefore, is a new confirmation of the 
extraordinary phenomenon which I had already noticed in a 
complete skull, and some fragments of jaws, in my own collec- 
tion * and which had also been observed by Middleton in 
the Cambridge mummy, + and by Bruckmann in the one that 
is at Cassel.J Storr has also seen something similar m a 
mummy that is preserved at Stuttgard. § 
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lecas Craniorum, I. Tab. I. 
^ddleton’s Miscellaneous Works, Vol.IV. p.i7°- 
;» uck m*»n’» Account of this Mummy. Brunswick, 1782,410. 
tour, Prodromus Mctboii Mammalium. Tubing. .780, 4t». P- *4- 
